St. Bernard Projects

Fairgrounds is located at {{Coord|29|59|49|N|90|04|46|W|type:city}} {{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}} and has an elevation of {{convert|0|ft|1}}.{{cite web|url=http://geonames.usgs.gov|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=US Board on Geographic Names|publisher=United States Geological Survey|date=2007-10-25}} According to the United States Census Bureau, the district has a total area of {{convert|0.36|mi2|1}}. {{convert|0.36|mi2|1}} of which is land and {{convert|0.00|mi2|1}} (0.0%) of which is water.

• Filmore (north)
• Dillard (east)
• St. Roch (south)
• Fairgrounds (south)
• City Park (west)

The City Planning Commission defines the boundaries of St. Bernard Projects as these streets: Harrison Avenue, Paris Avenue, Lafreniere Street, Florida Avenue and Bayou St. John.{{cite web|url=http://gnocdc.org/orleans/4/26/index.html|title=St. Bernard Projects Neighborhood|author=Greater New Orleans Community Data Center|accessdate=2008-06-21}}

As of the census of 2000, there were 6,427 people, 2,020 households, and 1,576 families living in the neighborhood.{{cite web|title=St. Bernard Area Neighborhood|url=http://gnocdc.org/NeighborhoodData/4/StBernard/index.html|publisher=Greater New Orleans Community Data Center|accessdate=6 January 2012}} The population density was 17,853 /mi² (7,141 /km²).

As of the census of 2010, there were 974 people, 403 households, and 231 families living in the neighborhood.

Located in the city's 7th Ward, the complex was built over a few decades, beginning in the 1940s and has the distinction of being the 2nd largest housing project in the city. Like most public housing developments, it was not a very safe complex as it became a battle ground for drug dealers during the height of the Crack epidemic in the late 1980s. It was once nicknamed "Dodge City" due to wild shootouts that occurred between rival gangs.{{Cite web|title=New Orleans, LA Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather - NOLA.com|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=TP&p_theme=tp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=DODGE%2520CITY,%2520ST.%2520BERNARD%2520PROJECT%2520AND%2520date(1/1/1989%2520to%25203/31/1989)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1/1/1989%2520to%25203/31/1989)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(DODGE%2520CITY,%2520ST.%2520BERNARD%2520PROJECT)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes|access-date=2021-02-15|website=nl.newsbank.com}} Between 2002 and 2003 St. Bernard had total of 25 homicides, 13 slayings in 2002 and 12 in 2003. Many of the residents blamed HANO for displacing other residents from other housing projects for the rise in murders.{{cite web| url = http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2007/01/housing_agencies_sue_to_remove.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110407194802/http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2007/01/housing_agencies_sue_to_remove.html| archive-date = 2011-04-07| title = Housing agencies sue to remove protesters - Group is occupying St. Bernard complex {{!}} NOLA.com}} After Hurricane Katrina the project closed and demolition began two years later. In 2008 the project was completely torn down and rebuilt as Columbia Parc, a mixed-income neighborhood.

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• [http://www.gnocdc.org/orleans/4/26/snapshot.html GNOCDC Neighborhood Snapshot]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW7KXArOrGs Have I Got a Witness - a documentary about the St. Bernard Projects]

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